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Click here to learn about the AA1000AS (2008) Global Launch.The call for a new standard comes from all directions: from sustainability professionals, from the organisations that prepare reports, from report readers, from other standards bodies, and from the financial community.
The AA1000 Assurance Standard will position itself as an international sustainability assurance standard that can be linked to other dominant business audit and assurance standards and that provides support for important reporting standards and guidelines. The world's first mainstream corporate accountability standard to be developed using a collaborative web-based process
The AA1000AS 2nd Edition will be the world's first corporate standard to be developed using a web-based, co-development process using open-source 'wiki' techniques to maximise participation and leverage synergies of collective knowledge. For more information, contact Alan Knight.
Consultation Workshops
The revision process was anchored by a series of consultations to held from September 2007 to April 2008. These international consultation workshops were held in 14 locations, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, India, China, Malaysia and Japan.
Results of e-Survey
In March 2007, AccountAbility conducted a survey to identify the main issues that needed to be addressed in the next edition of the AA1000 Assurance Standard. The survey was sent to members, practitioners, and the wider standards and corporate responsibility community. Read more. |
| “Wikis and crowd-sourcing techniques are all about participation, openness and empowerment, but all within a framework that allows a coherent joint creation. This fits perfectly with both the practical requirements of updating the AA1000AS standard and also the ethos of the standard itself. openDemocracy, an expert in collaborative creation projects, is very pleased to be a part of this exciting process." Tony Curzon-Price, CEO openDemocracy |
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